Across the nation.

Kevorkian Case Jurors Urged Not To Try To Make Social Policy

May 11, 1996|By Richard Liefer.

PONTIAC, MICHIGAN — The assisted-suicide case of Dr. Jack Kevorkian went to the jury late Friday after prosecutors pleaded with jurors not to try to make social policy but to find the retired pathologist guilty of helping two women kill themselves in 1991.

Lawrence Bunting, Oakland County's chief assistant prosecutor, said, "We have to follow the law." But Kevorkian attorney Geoffrey Fieger said, "How could there ever be a law . . . that said Marjorie Wantz and Sherry Miller had to suffer . . .?"

Jurors deliberated for about three hours Friday and were expected to resume deliberations Monday morning.

The lives of Wantz, 58, and Miller, 43, ended in a rustic cabin at a state park on Oct. 23, 1991.